Do you feel sleepy in the afternoon after meals?

Around 3-4 pm each day in the office, do you find yourself having difficulty in keeping yourself awake? You feel sleepy and just could not continue with your work. Why we experience this way is because excessive energy is needed to digest the food we ate for lunch.

Different foods are digested differently. Starchy foods require alkaline digestive medium and proteins foods like meat require an acidic medium for digestion. But when we mix both together, for example, we eat meat and potatoes together, or fish with rice, milk with cereal, the medium neutralizes with each other. Our digestion is impaired or completely arrested. This is very destructive to our body as more energy is required to digest the same amount of food.

During 3-4 pm, as our organs have already worked hard for half a day, but we still need extra energy to digest our lunch, our body would feel tired and naturally needs to take a rest from it.

In order not to let the foods rob us of excessive energy, we need to eat the right food combination and not mixing the wrong foods together, for example, not eat starchy foods and meat in the same meal. In this way, we shall feel much more healthy than ever before.